If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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